How To Make Money Blogging – 10 Step Solution
Posted by amater on Apr 10, 2009
Firstly, we all want to know How to Make Money Online, and one of the best ways I have found is by creating blogs. In this article I intend to show you how you too can learn How to Make Money Blogging by telling you how combining the techniques I have gathered from across the web helps to make me $$$ every day. Secondly, I am not trying to sell you my latest “Get Rich Quick” scheme because I don’t have one. Each eBook you read will have a wealth of information within them which will, without a doubt, help you to discover the secrets of How to Make Money Online. I am only going to tell you which ones out of the 100’s available you SHOULD read if you too want to make lots of money.
I use a 10 step guide to setting up and starting all of my blogs.
I will give you a list of the top 10 resources later that I use and recommend to everyone who is serious about making lots of money online. One of the vital aspects people seem to miss out when they first get into blogging is the fact that their blog must contain information that people want to read.
Many bloggers are looking through closed eyes in this regard and if you browse through 50 blogs you will notice that most will tell you they know How to Make Money with Blogs when really all they tell you is where they went on their vacation or how many cars they have.
Are you ready to learn How to Make Money Blogging?
If the answer is YES then read on and start to make money with your blog. I am not here to tell you how to write your blog, that’s up to you, but what I am about to tell you is the 10 things I use to make money on the internet. You can choose to use these techniques or not, that’s your prerogative.
Step 1 – Finding a Topic
Turn off your computer, grab a pen and some paper and sit somewhere you can relax but also stay focused (if you are just starting out this step can be a pain because we all want to know How to Make Money Online and we want to know how to make it NOW). Think of a topic you are interested in and write it down (this helps because you will be more committed to trying instead of giving up in a day or two) and also make sure it is something other people are interested in too. A couple of ways I use to think of a topic is by using MetaSpy to find out what people are searching for, Ask IQ to find what’s popular and VRE Toolbar to find out how many people search for the topic (this is also useful later on to get traffic). Write down your top five keywords, you will want to use them later in your blog.
Step 2 – Create Your Blog
Find and create your blog online. I like to use Wordpress for it’s SEO benefits but there’s also Blogger and Movable Type. You can find all the help in the program you use to get information when setting up the blog. Create your content, make it original, and make it informative. This is one of the main keys to learn How to Make Money with Blogs. You need to include the keywords you wrote down in Step 1 in the content of your blog. Try not to overuse these as it sends out bad signals to the search engines, and this is 100% not what you want.
Step 3 – Go Google
Sign up for Google Adsense and insert the code in the margin of your blog. You can customize your ads in many ways, such as including text links or image links. I prefer the text links only, as they are easier to blend in with your blog and don’t take the focus away from the information. Google Adsense will probably not make you a millionaire but it is an instant way of generating a small amount of money.
If you want to track where your visitors are coming from with regards to direct hits or from search engine results then I would suggest you use Google Analytics and again you can get all the help you need setting that up from within the program.
You will also want to add your URL to Google’s index.
Step 4 – Find Something to Sell
If you don’t want to sell anything and are happy with the income Google Adsense is bringing in then you can skip this step. If you want to maximize your income and truly learn How to Make Money with Blogs you will want to find an affiliate program to join. A couple of affiliate programs I would suggest are ClickBank and Commission Junction. You can sell anything from office furniture, pet supplies, movies and clothing to PC games, Dieting tips and Audio software.
Whatever program you join will give you help inserting the code you will need to insert into your blog, but be sure you do this correctly or you WILL NOT earn money from your visitors. If you do not know how to edit HTML, W3Schools HTML tutorial is a great place to start.
Step 5 – Social Bookmarking
There is no better advertising than word of mouth, but the next best thing is social bookmarking. You will want to make things easier for people to do this. Social bookmarking sites I use and recommend are OnlyWire and SocialMarker and they are used for people to share their bookmarks or websites that they have liked with other people in their online community.
I would not suggest you add your own links to these services, but provide visitors to your website the ability to do so.
Step 6 – Write an Article
Whether your blog is about a specific product, for example a certain MP3 Player you are promoting, or just about giving people information, I would suggest you to write an article or a review of it. Most article directories require articles of 500 words and over so I would use this as a rule when writing to ensure your article is published.
Submit your article to any of the 100’s which are out there. I personally use a few of the Top Article directories such as EzineArticles, Article Dashboard, Amazines.com, isnare and SearchWarp. I also use a nifty piece of software called Article Submitter which will submit your articles to over 600 article directories, which saves you lots of time and leaves you to focus on writing your blogs.
Step 7 – Ping The Hell Out Of It
Every time you add new information to your blog, you want to let the blog directories know about it, this is known as pinging. Some Blog providers automatically send out pings when you update, but to be on the safe side you will want to do this manually too. Wordpress already does this for you. Add any pinging services to the list already provided. Word of note – ONLY PING WHEN YOU UPDATE.
There are a couple of Ping sites I use which will send a ping to multiple blog directories at the same time. PingMyBlog would be my first port of call and then if for some reason that site is down I would use Ping-o-matic. Remember, to only ping when you update or you could get blacklisted, and that is bad.
Step 8 – Yahoo! Answers and Forums
One of the easiest ways to get targeted visitors to your blog is to make use of the people you want to target. I would suggest you sign up to at LEAST one forum in the topic you are writing about, and don’t just go straight in there and start posting comments for people to look at your blog, they won’t.
The secret is to add the link to your blog in your signature and actively become a member of the forum, posting relevant topics and starting debates within them. The more you post, the more your link will show, and if you provide someone with good info the chances are higher they will click your link.
Yahoo! Answers is along the same lines as forums but the beauty of this is it’s viewed by thousands of visitors each day. If you don’t already have a Yahoo! account get one and then login and search for questions relating to the topic of your blog and answer them well. You can then insert the link to your blog and as with the forums, if you answer well you may have not only earned yourself a point or two on Yahoo!, but also earned a visitor to your blog.
Step 9 – Update Your Blog
This can be by several means, one is to add new reviews or content to your blog, and if you are going to do this I suggest updating every couple of days. This helps to keep the search engines happy as they love to see new and original content.
Another way of updating your blog and keeping the content fresh is to add RSS feeds to it. Make sure the feeds are relevant to your blog and provide visitors with helpful information. Visitors to a World of Warcraft blog don’t want to read feeds about knitting, or do they?
Step 10 – More, More, More
Repeat steps 1 – 10, this is the only way How to Make Money Blogging.
Step 11 – A Bonus Step
If you have your own product or newsletter, give your visitors an easy way to sign up to receive updates or information. This helps you to contact the visitor again with more great info or products you wish to sell.
How to Make Money Online is easy if you follow the above steps.
Some important things to remember so you don’t get disheartened with your blog is the fact that you will not become a millionaire overnight, it takes hard work and a lot of effort. If you are really serious about learning How to Make Money with Blogs then stick with it and eventually you will have an Ah-Ha moment. This is when things start to work and you think to yourself Ah-Ha, that’s how they do it! Your moment could be sooner than you think.
My Top 10 resources I use and recommend are:
1. Rob Benwell’s Blogging to The Bank 2.0
2. Wordpress Goldmine
3. Rob Atherton’s Building A Blog Empire For Profit
4. The Blog Challenge
5. Hinge Marketing Magic
6. Blogging For Riches – Complete Video Tutorial
7. Social Bookmarking Demon
8. Adsense Inbox
9. Wordpress SEO Sniper
10. RSS, Blogs and Syndication…
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Monetize Your Twitter Account with this Online Ad Network
Posted by Alan Mater on Nov 13, 2008
Have you signed up for Twitter yet? If not, read my last blog post to find out why you should. As I had said there have been many different applications and websites to utulize Twitter, so it really comes to no surprise that there is now an online ad network for Twitter as well.
The ad network is called Be A Magpie. As stated on their website, you can “convert your tweets into bling-bling.”
How it works is you enter your Twitter name, it looks at all of your previous tweets, and calculates how much potential money you can make. You can determine this before you even sign up. Go ahead, see for yourself… http://www.be-a-magpie.com/start.
The types of ads that will be sent through your Twitter name is based on the content of your tweets and the ads that are available. They provide an illustration that better describes what I’m saying.
The ad frequency can be changed from 1:5 or 1:20. Meaning that for every 5 tweets that you make, one ad will be displayed, or one ad for every 20 tweets. I do believe the amount of followers you have is taken into consideration as well. They provide FAQs that you can look over.
Before you sign up, I would highly suggest you think about your followers first. You want their best interest in mind. Yes, you can make some nice, extra cash from this online ad network, but you don’t want to annoy your followers with ads all the time. Just something to keep in mind.
Here’s a review of Be A Magpie that was recently done by Kid’s Cash Connection…
Magpie, for those who don’t know, is an Ad Network for Twitter. Some have raised the question “How do we make money on Twitter?” This company will pay you to use your name to tweet about things that are related to you or your company. They match ad campaigns with the users and tweet the ad in your name. Every time they do this you get paid so many Euros depending on how many followers you have. We got paid $68 US dollars for our first week.
When you get to fifty Euros you can cash out into your Pay Pal account which converts the money into whatever you use. You can also use that money to start an ad campaign of your own. This enables you to advertise your site, blog or company for free!
What I have gathered from the experience is that Magpie will pay you and it is legitimate. It is, however, clear to me that they would much rather have you run an ad than cash out. Remember that we got $68 in one week but when we cashed out and did not choose the advertising option all of the sudden the tweets went silent. Here is a record of our account you be the judge:
2008-11-18 02:41:07 Magpie twittered. You earned! €9.51
2008-11-11 17:35:39 Magpie twittered. You earned! €9.17
2008-11-07 12:44:54 Cashed out () €-54.94
2008-11-07 11:52:12 Magpie twittered. You earned! €8.25
2008-11-06 17:18:31 Magpie twittered. You earned! €8.07
2008-11-04 22:13:57 Magpie twittered. You earned! €7.08
2008-11-04 09:02:40 Magpie twittered. You earned! €6.96
2008-11-04 00:11:32 Magpie twittered. You earned! €6.35
2008-11-03 11:52:58 Magpie twittered. You earned!)€6.25
2008-11-02 23:05:01 Magpie twittered. You earned! €6.00
2008-11-02 14:24:04 Magpie twittered. You earned! €5.98
If you notice after we cashed in, 4 days went by then a tweet after that 7 days went by and then another tweet. We earned €-54.94 in 5 days and cashed out. We made €18.68 in the next 11days!
When I emailed them about this they said that it had to do with the ads that were compatible for us. All the tweets on this page were for Magpie. How was that any different? Is the real reason that they don’t want to pay out so much?
One point that has been raised is that it will ruin the Twitter experience. That there will be too many Magpie tweets. I have to say that it wasn’t very noticeable from a user standpoint. Now watching Magpie tweets all day long is not my idea of a good time, but it has not gotten out of hand yet.
The deeper implication, however, is that is not how Magpie is viewed by the Twitter universe. They see it as a sell out or a prelude to more ads and marketing campaigns. That is not what they signed up, for as a matter of fact, it is causing people to get quite angry to the point they stop following you, if you promote Magpie.
The bottom line is it is up to you. I think from our experiment if you are looking to advertise something Magpie may be for you. If you are out to make money off Twitter I think you may want to build a strong community rather than turning to Magpie. Here’s the source again… Kid’s Cash Connection
Micro Blogging and Twitter
Posted by Alan Mater on Nov 12, 2008
Micro blogging is becoming very popular, perhaps thanks to the social site Twitter. Micro blogging is in a sense the same as traditional blogging, but you have a short space to say something. In the case of Twitter you have 140 characters to say “What you’re doing.” Micro blogging and Twitter is a great way to socially connect with others on a more personal level.
The idea behind Twitter is to form a following of other Twitter users. Those following you will be able to receive your updates in real-time. Posting updates is as simple as typing and hitting the “Enter” key. The 140 character limit is to keep your posts short and to the point.
You can make as many updates as you want in any given time period. You can post continuations of a previous post if you require more space than the character limit. There are no set rules, really. You are free to post any content you wish.
There are, however, some guidelines that should be followed when using micro blogging sites such as Twitter. You are free to post links to your own sites, however, excessive self-promotion will be considered spam and can get your account suspended.
There are many different applications and websites that have integrated the use of Twitter:
- Ezine Articles will send out a tweet every time they approve your articles, provided you have your account setup for it.
- Squidoo can send out a tweet on command that will allow your followers to know when you have updated your lenses
- Wordpress Plugin – TweetMyBlog – Tweets your latest blog post.
Those are the tools I use for Twitter. I would suggest not having too many accounts connected to your Twitter account. Too many feeds with your own links can get you suspended. I’ve seen it happen firsthand. Wasn’t me, though.
There are many different applications to go along with Twitter as well:
- Twhirl – Desktop application very similar to instant messaging.
- Tweet Later – Let’s you set a specific time when you want to post a tweet.
- There are many others, just do a search for them.
That’s micro blogging and Twitter in a nutshell. Get followers, follow others and make useful and informative tweets on a regular basis. You can gain an amount of respect, and in return, make joint ventures, sales, etc. The whole point is to be social. If you’re not one to be social and open to others, it may not be for you.
One of the awesome things about Twitter is that my tweets are getting indexed by Google almost instantly. Don’t believe me? Try it out for yourself!
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Using Social Bookmarking to Build Your Online Business
Posted by Alan Mater on Oct 31, 2008
Social bookmarking has become very popular. Social bookmarking allows you to bookmark sites you find interesting and share them with other users. The number of social bookmarking sites has really sprung up in the past year.
Here’s how you can market your online business using social bookmarking sites. Whenever you make a new post to your blog, write a new article, ect., bookmark that post or article to as many social bookmarking sites as you can.
This will help build backlinks and also build an awareness with other users. Make sure your content is interesting and unique. You want to create a buzz within the social bookmarking community so that others vote for your bookmarks. The more votes you get, the better.
A word of caution… spam is a big problem with social bookmarking sites. Self-promotion is seen as spam. Some sites you’ll be able to get away with it, others you won’t. My advice is you bookmark other people’s articles first, and then your own. That way yours will be at the top of the list.
If you want to bookmark your blog posts, PostOnFire.com is specifically for blogging, and they allow self-promotion. So make sure to bookmark your blog posts at PostOnFire.com. If it’s interesting enough, people will vote for it, and it will gain in popularity. This will help bring awareness to others about your blog and what you provide.
I recommend using a service like Socialmarker or Social Poster which will allow you to submit your sites to multiple social bookmarking sites.
For a list of social bookmarking sites to submit to, just go to the above services and they provide a long list of sites you can sign up with. Once you get signed up, start posting. This will help build your online business and bring awareness to other users.
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